Hating on Monday

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Characters can sometimes hate a certain day of the week, due to bad luck and misfortune that seem to only happen to them on that day. When they start hating it, they often start dreading the coming day on the day before.

As suggested by the trope name, Monday is one of, if not the most hated-on days, perhaps because it's the day that many people go back to work/school after the weekend.

Calvin and Hobbes: While Calvin never directly complains about Mondays per se, he does say that he can never enjoy Sundays because in the back of his mind, he knows he'd have to go to school the next day. "It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before execution."

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Fan Works

In Oh God Not Again!, when Neville faces the boggart, it takes on the form of alternate-Harry as Minister of Magic.

Boggart Harry: You know, Monday is probably the most depressing day ever, let's cancel it. And what's this nonsense about not being able to own a dragon in Britain? ...

Films — Live-Action

In Office Space the main character is told "somebody's got a bad case of the Mondays" by a coworker when he's kind of grumpy. He asks if anyone's said that, to his next-door neighbor (who works as a construction worker) who tells him "you'd get your ass kicked for something like that."

In Polish comedy classic Nie lubię poniedziałku (I don't like Monday) the whole plot is about random citizens of Warsaw suffering unpleasantries and hilarious twists of fate on Monday, blaming that day for being unlucky. Titular words are used a lot, along with "Never start anything on Monday".

One of the speeches on Doctor Who that the Eleventh Doctor names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, perhaps because a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?

The Doctor: Time isn't a straight line. It's all... bumpy-wumpy. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's possible.

Inverted in jPod, where a character talks on how Thursdays are the best day of the week.

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"Monday. What other day works so hard at reminding you not to get your hopes up 'cause it's gonna be coming around again real soon?" "If there really is someplace called Hell, the calendar's nothing but Mondays."

In Portal 2, there's an office where you can pick up a couple of coffee mugs. One mug has "I hate Mondays" on it.

Francis in Left 4 Dead hates Mondays, among other things, but he will tolerate the day if it's Lasagna Mondays.

In a twist of Holiday Mode, creating a new character on a Monday in Ancient Domains of Mystery results in them "feeling exhausted" and starting with less than their max HP. In rare circumstances this can even outright kill them.

Garfield and Friends: In "Monday Misery", Garfield's hatred of Mondays gets to the point where he mails himself to Samoa in an attempt to avoid Monday. Unfortunately, thanks to crossing the International Date Line, Garfield arrives in Samoa to find it's still Monday.

Real Life

As reported on NPR, "In 1979, Brenda Spencer opened fire with a rifle at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, Calif., killing two adults and injuring nine children. She later explained her actions with the statement, 'I don't like Mondays.'" This was the subject of a song by the Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays".

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